The Biden administration's recently released National Defense Strategy reportedly lacks defined details and practical solutions on how to deal with the growing China threat, according to Adam Savit of the America First Policy Institute.
Savit has worked in the National Security sphere for more than a decade, according to his biography. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and international relations from Penn State University.
“The Biden administration’s new National Defense Strategy is generally sound in its broad strokes and rhetoric regarding China, but is light on details and practical solutions. Most importantly, it recognizes that regional alliances, especially a strengthening of the relationship with Japan and interoperability between the U.S. military and those of our regional allies, is essential to deterring the PRC and containing a potential assault on Taiwan,” Savit, director of AFPI’s China Policy Initiative, said in a statement provided to State Newswire. “Secondly, it recognizes China’s growing and diverse nuclear weapons stockpile, estimating at least 1,000 deliverable warheads by 2030. For years, official U.S. estimates have inexplicably hovered in the 200-300 warhead range, even as hundreds of expensive nuclear-capable missile silos have been detected in China’s western deserts in recent years.”
The National Defense Strategy focuses on the Defense Department’s role in the implementation of the President's National Security Strategy plan, according to the Historic Office of the Secretary of Defense. It states how the Defense Department will help to achieve the objectives outlined in the National Security Strategy to help with the worldwide maintenance of security and prosperity.
The first National Defense Strategy was released in 2005 and is published every four years, according to the Historic Office of the Secretary of Defense. The report tends to focus on the worldwide strategic environment, force postures and the U.S. role in global security.
“The paper does not suggest a strategy to address the nuclear threat except to admonish the PRC regarding its treaty obligations and general commitment to responsible conduct, which has not worked well in deterring them from genocide in Xinjiang,” Savit said in his statement. “The most important deterrent is a strong United States at home. Just as China’s strategy is whole-of-society and whole-of-government, ours must be as well. Our path to success is our own economic prosperity, secure supply chains, energy independence and cultural resilience. All of these are required to achieve strategic and military deterrence and avoid war.”
The National Defense Strategy acknowledges China as the current and continually growing challenge to America, according to AFPI’s comparison of the Biden administration's plan to the Trump administration’s plan. The 2022 plan reportedly does not acknowledge definitive ways to counter China, only how to exist with them peacefully so as to not rock the boat. And it does not attempt to make China take responsibility for its continued threatening actions against America and anyone who directly disagrees with them, according to the AFPI.
